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August 22 News Roundup + Interview with Bradley Ford

They'll also talk about the newly proposed city budget and an update on the Alice Rodriguez park.

Plus, JB Smith talks to city manager Bradley Ford about the challenges his department faced in creating the budget for next year.

You can find links to some of the information from today's show below:

  • You can find the proposed budget and public hearing information here.
  • You can find information about China Spring ISD's proposed VATRE and upcoming community meetings at chinaspringisd.net/vatre
  • You can read Molly-Jo's coverage of the Waco area TEA accountability scores here.
    • You can search accountability scores by school or district at txschools.gov
Molly-Jo Tilton joined KWBU in 2024 as the station's Multimedia Reporter. She covers all things Waco for KWBU, from City Council to the local arts scene. Her work has appeared on The Texas Standard and NPR's All Things Considered.
Before joining The Waco Bridge in February as editor-in-chief, J.B. Smith had 33 years of Texas journalism experience, most of it as local government reporter and managing editor at the Tribune-Herald. He has won numerous statewide awards for enterprise journalism, including a series on migrant deaths on the Mexico border. A Sulphur Springs native and Southwestern University graduate, he is grateful for the opportunity to build a nonprofit newsroom in his adopted hometown of Waco.